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A 17-year-old high school student was arressted for allegedly using Bitcoin to pay for multiple bomb threat calls made to his school.

Teen Accused of Using Bitcoin to Pay for Bomb Threat at His High School

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Vitalik Buterin, the founder of the Ethereum blockchain, keeps making fun of the Bored Ape Yacht Club — which is built on the Ethereum blockchain.

Ethereum Founder Mocks Bored Apes, Which Are Built on Ethereum

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Celsius crypto wallet bankruptcy keeps rearing its ugly head — this time, affecting the father of a "Bachelorette" contestant.

“Bachelorette” Contestant Pushes Dad to Invest in Crypto, Causing Him to Lose It All

By Noor Al-Sibai

Texas paid Riot Blockchain, a crypto mining company, millions of dollars to partially shut down during an intense heat wave.

Texas Paid Crypto Mining Company Millions to Not Mine Crypto

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Iran has purchased $10 million worth of imported goods using cryptocurrency — a move that could evade American trade sanctions.

Iran Just Made a $10 Million Import Order Using Crypto

By Noor Al-Sibai

A cryptocurrency company is offering a bounty of up to $19 million to its "white hat hacker friends" after hackers made off with hundreds of millions.

Crypto Company Offers Massive Bounty to “White Hat Hackers” After Giant Heist

By Noor Al-Sibai

A crypto enthusiast wants to dig through a landfill to recover a tossed hard drive, which he says contains roughly $180 million worth of Bitcoin.

Man Who Lost $180 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive 9 Years Ago Still Trying to Dig Through Trash

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is under investigation by two attorneys general for his new company, Druglike, which he says isn't a pharmaceutical company.

Martin Shkreli’s Crypto Startup Under Investigation by Two Separate Attorneys General

By Lonnie Lee Hood

On the list of terrible things to wake to wake your pregnant wife up with, the news that you've lost $100,000 in crypto is right up there.

Man Wakes Pregnant Wife to Tell Her He Lost $100,000 on Crypto

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, cryptocurrency company EminiFX collected a quarter of a billion dollars from investors before being exposed as a Ponzi scheme.

Shockingly, Crypto Project That Promised 5% Returns Per Week Turned Out to Be a Ponzi Scheme

By Victor Tangermann

Now, Tesla has reportedly offloaded 75 percent of its Bitcoin holdings, another sign that major players are starting to grow wary of a "crypto winter."

Tesla Sells Off Most of Its Bitcoin, at a Huge Loss

By Victor Tangermann

Coinbase secretly announced it is "temporarily shutting down" a US-based affiliate program, according to Insider, scaring investors.

Coinbase Leak Scares Crypto Investors

By Victor Tangermann

Even if the crypto market isn't exactly growing in terms of profit, the enthusiasts who mine it are certainly increasing their energy consumption.

United States Crypto Miners Are Now Using as Much Power as Houston

By Lonnie Lee Hood

MetaMask co-founders Aaron Davis and Dan Finlay are well aware that they played a big part in allowing Ponzi schemes to flourish.

Crypto Founders Say It’s Not Their Fault They’re Enabling Ponzi Schemes

By Victor Tangermann

Embattled crypto lender Celsius finally filed for bankruptcy yesterday, and there's still no telling when, or if, customers will ever get their money back.

Crypto Lender That Kept Bragging About How Great It Was Files for Bankruptcy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Crypto miners finally made at least one eco-conscious decision this week when they shut down temporarily to avoid overloading Texas' electric grid.

Texas Gets So Hot That Crypto Miners Call It Quits

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bitcoin bros are so not OK that some of them have begun believing that the cryptocurrency was sent down by the Christian God himself.

Religious Zealots Think Bitcoin Was Created by God

By Noor Al-Sibai

Introducing: The "Bear Market Screaming Therapy Group," a Telegram group where downtrodden everyday crypto investors go to scream crypto winter woes away.

Crypto Investors Are Creating Voice Chats Where They Just Scream and Sob

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), are literally missing — and they might be on the lam.

Crypto Hedge Fund Founders Abandon HQ and Disappear After Implosion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Binance crypto exchange could be in trouble with the American government over allegedly serving Iranians in spite of terrorism sanctions on the country.

Crypto Exchange That Invested in Forbes Accused of Violating Terrorism Sanctions

By Noor Al-Sibai

A developer used his speech at a gaming conference to trash talk NFTs, and was met with a huge round of applause from the audience.

Speaker at Crypto-Funded Convention Trashes NFTs, Gets Loud Applause

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bitcoin's horrible year is about to get a lot worse, with the value of the cryptocurrency expected to plunge to $10,000, as predicted by some investors.

Most Investors Think Bitcoin’s Value Will Get Chopped in Half Again

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto exchange Voyager Digital has filed for bankruptcy, and according to the paperwork, most customers likely won't be getting their money back.

Man Loses Down Payment for House When Crypto Exchange Goes Bankrupt

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Endless Snoop Dogg promo has not been enough to save the NFT market, it seems. As predicted, June shaped up to be a pretty horrific month for the industry.

Abysmal New Numbers Show the NFT Market Is in Deep Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FBI added Ruja Ignatova's name to its ten most-wanted list on Thursday because the Cryptoqueen scammed investors for $4 billion in a pyramid scheme.

FBI Offers Huge Reward for “Cryptoqueen” Accused of Stealing $4 Billion

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Blockchain woes persist. Bitcoin lost 38 percent of its value in June alone, making this past month the worst in crypto's 12 year history, CNBC reports.

Bitcoin Just Had Its Worst Month in Crypto’s Entire History

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

RadioShack — the once-bankrupt strip mall electronics stable which from death returneth to unlikely crypto trader — has chosen chaos.

RadioShack Is Tweeting About Drugs and Unusual Sexual Acts, for Some Reason

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Crypto billionaire and founder of exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried says many cryptocurrency exchanges "are already secretly insolvent."

Crypto CEO Warns That Exchanges Are “Secretly Already Insolvent”

By Victor Tangermann

Alex Mashinsky, CEO of anguished crypto lending firm Celsius, did NOT attempt to flee the US amid the bitcoin crash, a Celsius spokesperson clarified.

Crypto Startup in Crisis Insists That Its CEO Isn’t Trying to Flee the Country

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A bill that would ban all crypto mining that uses fossil fuels is languishing on the desk of New York's governor, which begs the question — what now?

New York State May Ban Any Crypto Mining Powered by Fossil Fuels

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bill Gates really, really hates cryptocurrency, saying on Tuesday that virtual coins and their NFTs are "100 percent based on the Greater Fool Theory."

Bill Gates Ruthlessly Mocks NFTs as Crypto Market Collapses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid an industry collapse and a class-action investor defrauding lawsuit, the Binance crypto exchange is looking for 2,000 new employees.

Many Crypto Startups Are Firing People Right Now, But This One Is Hiring 2,000 New Employees

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bitcoin bros are really, really not OK, as evidenced by the latest sad cope from a financial planner who likely just lost his clients a ton of money.

Financial Planner Desperately Explains to Clients Why the Bitcoin Crash Is Good, Actually

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just a few months after spending who knows how much on Super Bowl ads, leading cryptocurrency exchanges are now laying off thousands of employees.

Crypto Exchanges Lay Off Thousands, Months After Uber-Expensive Super Bowl Ads

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, are indeed in a band, as footage of the twins un-ironically covering "Don't Stop Believin'" has confirmed.

Horrible Footage Emerges of Winklevoss Twins Singing “Don’t Stop Believin'”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has had to pause Bitcoin withdrawals as the currency drops precipitously for the second time in 2022.

As Bitcoin Crashes, Binance Halts Withdrawals

By Noor Al-Sibai

Congress maay actually regulate crypto after the market's latest crash that wiped out $40 billion in crypto assets. It may regulate stablecoins completely.

Congress Moves to Regulate Crypto After Meltdown Wipes Out Investments

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Web3 sure is going great — just ask Molly White, the researcher whose crypto scam-busting skills have felled con artists left and right.

Awesome Woman Destroys “Predatory” Crypto Scams by Shaming Them to Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto scammers made a deepfake video of Elon Musk claiming he started the fake trading platform BitVex. Musk said the creepy video isn't him.

Elon Musk Alarmed by Deepfake of Him Endorsing Crypto Scam

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Don't go to a stablecoin founder's house to try to talk to them if you're ever in South Korea.

Bankrupt Investor Arrested for Showing Up at Crypto Founder’s House

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nothing in the US economy has been more stable than the price of AriZona tea cans — what better value to peg a stable crypto coin towards?

New Crypto Backed by “America’s Most Stable Asset”: Cans of AriZona Iced Tea

By Noor Al-Sibai

Remember all those celebrities who did crypto ads? They're still rich, but they've been awfully quiet since the industry they shilled has tanked in value.

Crypto-Shilling Celebs Suddenly Very Quiet Now That It’s Crashing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dogecoin founder Billy Markus apparently doesn't think very highly of the people who invest in cryptocurrencies like his.

Dogecoin Creator Says That 70 Percent of Crypto Investors Are Complete Morons

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mayors of several major US cities are noticeably quiet about city-based cryptocurrencies they once promoted as a solution to many of their cities' problems.

Miami Backed a City Crypto, Which Then Imploded and Lost 95% of Its Value

By Victor Tangermann

The value of Bitcoin is dropping precipitously, while gang violence is on the rise in El Salvador, a country that adopted Bitcoin as legal tender.

Gang Violence Surging as Crypto Crashes in Bitcoin Country

By Noor Al-Sibai

If the great crypto crash of 2022 is giving you deja vu, you're not alone as blockchain expert David Gerard argued.

Expert Says Crypto Crash is Just Like 2008 Financial Crisis

By Noor Al-Sibai

A nosedive in the crypto market tanked LUNA, a stablecoin based on the US dollar. Reddit users panicked, posting mental health and depression struggles.

Suicidal Posts Spike After Crypto Project Crashes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A report from cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes found that there's been a marked increase in malware campaigns geared towards the NFT community.

Crypto Fans Are So Dumb They’re Clicking .EXE Files Disguised as NFTs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bitcoin is down horrendously — and it's losing money for many investors who thought it was a sure shot during balmier days.

Analysis Finds That 40 Percent of Bitcoin Investors Have Lost Money

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Texas woman told Bloomberg her Tinder boyfriend scammed $8 million of her inheritence in crypto. She's suing him and the exchanges.

Woman Scammed for $8 Million in Crypto, Sues Exchanges

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Billionaire and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway said he wouldn't take $25 for all the cryptocurrency and bitcoin in the world. What happened?

Warren Buffett Says He Wouldn’t Buy All the Bitcoin in the World for $25

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Despite hackers stealing $13.7 million of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, interest was so high in its metaverse plots the Ethereum crypto blockchain crashed.

Bored Apes’ New Drop Was So Popular That It Crashed the Entire Ethereum Blockchain

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A hack used a crypto exploit to steal $1 million worth of cryptocurrency but self-destructed the contract and lost the currency permanently.

Oops! Hacker Steals $1 Million in Crypto and Then Destroys It

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Wellness culture has really gone too far this time.

New Cryptocurrency Makes You Exercise to Mine Coins

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto Stocks Are Doing Absolutely Horribly

Crypto Stocks Are Doing Absolutely Horribly

By Victor Tangermann

The shills are alive with the sound of crypto, apparently.

Lindsay Lohan Accused of Taking Huge Payments to Shill Crypto

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bitcoin — with a capital B — was designed to have a hard cap of 21 million Bitcoins, a limited coin supply. Miners are about to hit the 19 million mark.

They’ve Now Mined Almost All the Bitcoin That Will Ever Exist

By Victor Tangermann

Exxon Mobile is used to waste about 18 million cubic feet of gas per month. Now it's using the fossil fuel to power crypto mining rigs.

Exxon Mobil Is Starting to Burn Excess Gas to Mine Bitcoin

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Six months ago, El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender and began requiring all businesses take it — and according to actual Salvadorans, it's apparently been a disaster.

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble Has Become a Complete Mess

By Noor Al-Sibai

After El Salvador's disastrous decision to make Bitcoin legal tender, Malaysia is excited to follow suit, Bloomberg reports.

Malaysian Government: Let’s Turn Bitcoin Into Legal Tender

By Victor Tangermann

Elizabeth Warren is trying to sanction Russia and regulate cryptocurrency while she's at it — and she's angered a surprising number of people.

Everyone Hates Elizabeth Warren’s Crypto Regulation Bill

By Noor Al-Sibai

One man's enthusiasm for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) induced an L that he willingly posted.

Crypto Guy Complains That Woman Canceled Date Because He’d Talk About NFTs Too Much

By Noor Al-Sibai

Has Elon Musk figured out the source of the "Satoshi Nakamoto" pseudonym given to Bitcoin's mysterious creator?

Elon Musk Shares Galaxy-Brain Theory About Bitcoin Creator

By Noor Al-Sibai

President Joe Biden has issued a first-of-its-kind executive order to regulate cryptocurrencies. But it’s unclear what exactly will change.

Biden Issues Executive Order to Finally Regulate Cryptocurrency

By Tony Ho Tran